[Pramāṇa](https://indike.org/pramana/) › [Indian literature](https://indike.org/pramana/in) › [Vedic Literature](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda) › [Brāhmaṇas (ritual exegesis)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.brahmana) › [Jaiminīya (Talavakāra) Brāhmaṇa](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.brahmana.jaiminiya) › 3.1 # Jaiminīya (Talavakāra) Brāhmaṇa 3.1 Jaiminīyabrāhmaṇa 3.1 - **Language:** Sanskrit ### [3.1](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.brahmana.jaiminiya.3.1) tāndvedhā vyaugat te ṣaḍṛtavo'bhavan sa grīṣmādeva vasantaṃ niramamīta | varṣābhyaśśaradaṃ | hemantāśchiśiram tasmādeta ṛtūnāmupaśleṣā iva nirmitā hi ṣaṭsato'bhyatapyata tāndvedhā vyauhat te dvādaśa māsā abhavan dvādaśa sato'bhyatapyata tāndvedhā vyauhat te caturviṃśatirardhamāsā abhavan caturviṃśatiṃ sato'bhyatapyata sa ṣakṣata yadi dvedhā vyūhiṣyāmi | na vibhaviṣyanti | hanta | nirmimā iti tebhyassapta ca śatāni viṃśatiṃ cāhorātrāṇi niramamīta sa idaṃ sarvaṃ vyakarot yathā ha vai hiraṇyamavikṛtamevamidaṃ tataḥ purā sa sarvamadhi hāsmiñchilpāni gamyante vikṛtāni cāvikṛtāni ca ya evaṃ veda > He pushed those three apart into two. > They became six seasons. > From summer he created spring, from the rainy season autumn, from winter the cool season. > Therefore, these \[seasons\] are as if attached, for they were created \[from each other\]. > He practiced heat on the existing six. > He pushed them apart into two. > They became twelve months. > He practiced heat on the existing twelve. > He pushed them apart into two. > They became twenty-four half-months. > He practiced heat on the existing twenty-four. > He considered: 'If I push \[these\] apart into two, they will not be sufficient. Come, let me create!' > From them he created seven hundred and twenty days and nights. > He differentiated all this. > Just as gold is unformed, so this \[universe\] was before that. > All works, both formed and unformed, are known upon it by one who knows thus. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [3.1.p1](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.brahmana.jaiminiya.3.1.p1) ṣcsa evaiṣa prajāpatissaṃvatsaro'bhavat > And he indeed became this Prajāpati, the year. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [3.1.p2](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.brahmana.jaiminiya.3.1.p2) sa idaṃ sarvaṃ stabdhvā vyāpyātiṣṣthat > Having braced all this, he stood pervading it. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [3.1.p3](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.brahmana.jaiminiya.3.1.p3) sa ṣakṣata kayā svadhayā kenānnādyena kayorjedamayaṃ vyāpaditi > He considered: 'By what sacrificial nourishment, by what food, by what invigorating draught might this \[offspring\] of mine pervade?' > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [3.1.p4](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.brahmana.jaiminiya.3.1.p4) tasminnetāṃ svadhāmūrjamannādyamakṣitiṃ paryapaśyaddvādaśa paurṇamāsīrdvādaśāṣṭakā > In him he saw this sacrificial nourishment, invigorating draught, food, and imperishability: the twelve full-moon days, the twelve aṣṭakā days, > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [3.1.p5](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.brahmana.jaiminiya.3.1.p5) dvādaśāmāvāsyāḥ > the twelve new-moon days. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [3.1.p6](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.brahmana.jaiminiya.3.1.p6) tāmavārurutsata > He wished to obtain her. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [3.1.p7](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.brahmana.jaiminiya.3.1.p7) sainamabravīnna mānabhiśrāntāmavarotsyasa iti > She said to him: 'You shall not obtain me without having toiled.' > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [3.1.p8](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.brahmana.jaiminiya.3.1.p8) sa tapo'tapyata > He practiced austerity. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [3.1.p9](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.brahmana.jaiminiya.3.1.p9) sa etaṃ dvādaśāhaṃ yajñamapaśyat > He saw this twelve-day sacrifice. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ## Translations (1) - [English (machine translation)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.brahmana.jaiminiya~en-mt.3.1) — English, machine translation --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.brahmana.jaiminiya.3.1](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.brahmana.jaiminiya.3.1) · Pramāṇa